HISTORY CHRISTIANITY, THE REFORMATION

Martin Luther, German Monk, John Calvin, Protestantism

According to history, Martin Luther, a German monk, and John Calvin, leaders who spearheaded the break of Catholicism. This was called The Reformation. Out of the reformation movements, came Protestantism, which represented looser religious practices and less religious discipline.

In 1520 A.D., Martin Luther was excommunicated, from the Catholic Church by Pope Leo, X. Catholicism controlled the church and the state. In other words, it controlled the establishment of the country where it had jurisdiction.

So Protestantism sprang from Catholicism in the 16th century (around 1520 A.D.) By heresy (disbelief). Catholicism is the mother of all Christendom and, all Christian faiths and denominations, as it exists today. In other words, Protestantism is a result of spiritual lawlessness against Catholicism, just as the United States of America is a result of political lawlessness against England.

Protestantism is an offspring of Catholicism "Protestant" means "one who protests", meaning, religiously, one who protests the established order of belief or decorum (order) or both The order of belief and decorum for the time, 1520 A.D. In Europe which reference is now made to as Catholicism.

The etymological meanings of the words "Catholicism and Pantheism" are the same in the sense that they both refer to the statue of a huge cat with a king's head at Giza, Egypt, which symbolizes lion of Judah, also known as Jupiter and Zeus. All Greek Gods were originally Phoenician-Hindu Gods. Literally, the word "Catholic" means "Cat-Holy" or "holy cat". Of course, Catholicism and Protestantism and their many branches and denominations are all Christianity called Christendom, the Canaanites spiritual world.

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